TEFL Reviews

Almost every published course book has its fans and its detractors...

Pronunciation and phonology are important aspects of the English language that don?t get taught enough in the classroom...

The receptive skills are reading and listening...

Classroom management refers to the ways in which student behaviour, movement and interaction during a lesson are organized and controlled by the teacher...

This unit is all about creating sentences in the past tense...

This unit provided insight into the management style of the classroom and the pros and cons of different choices with regard to seating arrangement, TTT vs...

The meaning of a word depends on the stress of the word and how the words is spoken...

Modal auxiliary verbs such as, could, can, will, etc...

This unit suggests some useful tips on teaching special groups of students ranging from young beginners to adult beginners, one-on-one students, students with specific reasons for learning the English language like for business, multilingual and monolingual students, just to name a few...

In this unit, I found so many useful tactics that have been offered, which allows both teachers and students to have the best atmosphere and a healthiest environment in order to accomplish the teaching results...

In this unit, I learned that English has 12 tenses for teaching purposes: three main tenses (present, past, and future) which each have four sub-tenses...

Tenses are times in the English language...

I found this unit challenging in some respects due to the three additional tenses (?Going to?, ?Present Simple? and ?Present Continuous?) as being also relevant to express the future tense...

Unit 15 discusses about methods of knowing students' English level, i...

Unlike the receptive skills, productive skills require the student to be for more active in their learning...

This unit discusses some very important grammar points including phrasal verbs, the difference between direct and passive voice, modal auxiliary verbs, and reported/indirect speech...

Productive skills include speaking and writing...

Unit 7 is all about how we can teach a new language to out students, it focuses on the appropriate methods of how to help students understand vocabulary, grammar and functions...

In unit 3 we learn about classroom management and different ways teachers can manage their classroom so that effective learning can take place...

After being reminded of the 12 tenses in English, many of which are just subtly different in form and usage, I admit to being overwhelmed...

Lesson plans have 3 important functions which are an aid to planning; a working document,and a record...

Unit Seven gives us our first glimpse at planning our own lessons to teach our students the three building-blocks of language: vocabulary, grammar, and function...

This unit described the different methodologies of teaching, focusing on the ESA method...

This unit was extremely useful since it deals with teaching special groups which I deal with very often - beginners, children, individual lessons...

There are many methods of teaching used by teachers all over the world starting from Grammar-translation and audio-drills finishing with CLL and CTL, the choice of which to use in a class greatly depends on students' level...

This unit focused on production skills which are speaking and writing...

This unit taught the different types of groups one may encounter during their teaching career...

When preparing to teach, it is useful to know the various groups that a teacher may be instructing...

I learned from the Unit 3 theories, methods and techniques that are very important to know as a future teacher...

The two productive skills in a language are, speaking and writing...

From this Unit I learnt 4 Present tenses, about their 3 forms (affirmative, negative, question) for each and also their usages, typical student errors, sample activate stage teaching ideas...

Receptive skills, reading and listening, are an important part of language learning...

This unit was about watching and evaluating how things go during a lesson...

The unit focused on productive (writing and speaking) skills: what activities would work best to promote accuracy (typically in the study stage) vs...

Unit ten was helpful because it utilized the visual aids of videos, rather than just reading words on the paper...

Unit 12 Teaching productive skills...

Many adults have had bad experiences of learning English at school, and often remember their English lessons as being dull and repetitive...

In order to make lessons more interesting, varied and graded for students' level the teacher may use created materials, such as: pictures, flash cards, crosswords, gap fill activities...

This unit taught and gave examples of various aspects of classroom management, or how to organize and manage a class...

This unit discussed how to approach various special groups, such as young learners, multilingual classes, and people learning English for business purposes...